Word: vichyfrench
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...Vichyfrench at Dakar, receiving Admiral Jean Francois Darlan (see p. 27), still expected Allied invasion...
Perhaps the "military idiots" of London and Washington were merely inciting Adolf Hitler to further rage and bafflement (see p. 23). Perhaps the Germans were merely inciting the Vichyfrench to open war on Hitler's side. Or perhaps the many signs of visible preparation last week meant what they seemed to mean: that the Allies, unwilling to risk a second front in Western Europe this year, were getting ready to move in Africa instead...
Madagascar's last important port, Tulear, surrendered to British naval forces. The island's main railway was occupied by South African troops. Vichyfrench officers and their dark Malagasy troops laid down their arms, happy at the prospect of the continued pensions promised by the British. Only in isolated southern sections were there still Vichy adherents under arms. These sections were Britain's for the taking...
Syria, Palestine and the Sinai Peninsula are the Mediterranean roadways to the bridge. Jumbo Wilson helped to take Syria from the Vichyfrench. The British Ninth Army under General Alexander now holds the Mediterranean fringe from Egypt to Turkey. If & when Field Marshal Rommel masters Egypt and Suez, he may choose to turn north toward Syria, seize the Royal Navy's last (and insufficient) eastern Mediterranean bases at Haifa and Beirut, then drive on Iraq. His more direct route to Basra would be straight across the great deserts of Arabia, but even camel trails skirt those wastes...
Like Aranha, most Brazilians were feeling comfortably unperturbed, especially about the rest of the South American continent, excepting only Vichyfrench Guiana. All independent South American nations had accorded Brazil nonbelligerent status. Onetime Argentine President General Augustin Justo, who is pro-United Nations and who would like to be a candidate for the presidency in 1943, volunteered for the Brazilian army and was accepted as an honorary brigadier general. From Chile, whose President Juan Antonio Rios will soon visit the U.S., came hints of a break with the Axis before Rios leaves Santiago. If the Axis, as Aranha hinted, had forced...